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Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) involve measuring the spatial distribution of galaxies to determine the growth rate of cosmic structure. We derive constraints on cosmological parameters from $17$ uncorrelated BAO measurements that were…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-10 David Benisty , Denitsa Staicova

A plethora of observational data obtained over the last couple of decades has allowed cosmology to enter into a precision era and has led to the foundation of the standard cosmological constant and cold dark matter paradigm, known as the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-31 Rubén Arjona , Savvas Nesseris

Baryon acoustic oscillation measurements by the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (Data Release 1) have revealed exciting results that show evidence for dynamical dark energy at $\sim3\sigma$ when combined with cosmic microwave…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-30 Bikash R. Dinda , Roy Maartens

Hints of a dynamical dark-energy equation of state have appeared in several combined cosmological probes. However, such indications may instead arise from the intrinsic likelihood geometry of individual datasets, residual inter-probe…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-24 Seokcheon Lee

In this work, we investigate whether the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) measurements from redshift surveys, like the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), and the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), are consistent with each other. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-10 Basundhara Ghosh , Carlos Bengaly

$H_0$ tension in the spatially flat $\Lambda$CDM model is reevaluated by employing three sets of non-Planck CMB data, namely WMAP, WMAP+ACT, and WMAP+SPT, in conjunction with DESI BAO data and non-DESI BAO datasets including 6dFGS, SDSS…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-22 Ye-Huang Pang , Xue Zhang , Qing-Guo Huang

There is a persistent $H_0$-tension, now at more than $\gtrsim 4\sigma$ level, between the local distance ladder value and the \emph{Planck} cosmic microwave background measurement, in the context of flat $\Lambda$CDM model. We reconstruct…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-30 Meng-Zhen Lyu , Balakrishna S. Haridasu , Matteo Viel , Jun-Qing Xia

Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) datasets use very precise measurements of the spatial distribution of large-scale structures as a distance ladder to help constrain cosmological parameters. In a recent article \cite{Benisty:2020otr}, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-02 Denitsa Staicova

We revisit the evolution of cosmic acceleration in a spatially flat $w_0w_a$CDM universe, in which the equation of state of dark energy takes the CPL parametrization, using the latest baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) measurements from the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-12 Jincheng Wang , Hongwei Yu , Puxun Wu

We use a combination of Planck cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy data and non-CMB data that include Pantheon+ type Ia supernovae (SNIa), Hubble parameter [$H(z)$], growth factor ($f\sigma_8$) measurements, and a collection of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-25 Chan-Gyung Park , Javier de Cruz Perez , Bharat Ratra

We introduce a model-independent approach to the null test of the cosmic curvature which is geometrically related to the Hubble parameter $H(z)$ and luminosity distance $d_L(z)$. Combining the independent observations of $H(z)$ and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-23 Rong-Gen Cai , Zong-Kuan Guo , Tao Yang

The cosmic microwave background (CMB) and baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) provide precise measurements of the cosmic expansion history through the comoving acoustic scale. The CMB angular scale measurement $\theta_*$ is particularly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-24 Antony Lewis , Ewan Chamberlain

We test both the FLRW geometry and $\Lambda$CDM cosmology in a model independent way by reconstructing the Hubble function $H(z)$, the comoving distance $D(z)$ and the growth of structure $f\sigma_8(z)$ using the most recent data available.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-18 Valerio Marra , Domenico Sapone

We present an updated reconstruction of the DE equation of state (EoS), $w(a)$, employing the newly released DESI DR2 Baryon Acoustic Oscillation data. This analysis constrains the cosmological scenarios influenced by different models…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-17 Saddam Hussain , Simran Arora , Anzhong Wang , Ben Rose

The standard concordance model of the Universe is based on the cosmological constant as the driver of accelerating expansion. This concordance model is being subjected to a growing range of inter-locking observations. In addition to using…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Sahba Yahya , Marina Seikel , Chris Clarkson , Roy Maartens , Mathew Smith

In the present paper, we observationally constrain f (G) gravity at the background level using Type Ia supernovae from the Pantheon Plus (PP) sample, cosmic chronometer (CC) data, and the recent Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-23 Praveen Kumar Dhankar , Dalale Mhamdi , Albert Munyeshyaka , Darshan Kumar , Joseph Ntahompagaze , Taoufik Ouali

We derive constraints on cosmological parameters and tests of dark energy models from the combination of baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) measurements with cosmic microwave background (CMB) and Type Ia supernova (SN) data. We take…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-23 Éric Aubourg , Stephen Bailey , Julian E. Bautista , Florian Beutler , Vaishali Bhardwaj , Dmitry Bizyaev , Michael Blanton , Michael Blomqvist , Adam S. Bolton , Jo Bovy , Howard Brewington , J. Brinkmann , Joel R. Brownstein , Angela Burden , Nicolás G. Busca , William Carithers , Chia-Hsun Chuang , Johan Comparat , Antonio J. Cuesta , Kyle S. Dawson , Timothée Delubac , Daniel J. Eisenstein , Andreu Font-Ribera , Jian Ge , J. -M. Le Goff , Satya Gontcho A Gontcho , J. Richard Gott , James E. Gunn , Hong Guo , Julien Guy , Jean-Christophe Hamilton , Shirley Ho , Klaus Honscheid , Cullan Howlett , David Kirkby , Francisco S. Kitaura , Jean-Paul Kneib , Khee-Gan Lee , Dan Long , Robert H. Lupton , Mariana Vargas Magaña , Viktor Malanushenko , Elena Malanushenko , Marc Manera , Claudia Maraston , Daniel Margala , Cameron K. McBride , Jordi Miralda-Escudé , Adam D. Myers , Robert C. Nichol , Pasquier Noterdaeme , Sebastián E. Nuza , Matthew D. Olmstead , Daniel Oravetz , Isabelle Pâris , Nikhil Padmanabhan , Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille , Kaike Pan , Marcos Pellejero-Ibanez , Will J. Percival , Patrick Petitjean , Matthew M. Pieri , Francisco Prada , Beth Reid , Natalie A. Roe , Ashley J. Ross , Nicholas P. Ross , Graziano Rossi , Jose Alberto Rubiño-Martín , Ariel G. Sánchez , Lado Samushia , Ricardo Tanausú Génova Santos , Claudia G. Scóccola , David J. Schlegel , Donald P. Schneider , Hee-Jong Seo , Erin Sheldon , Audrey Simmons , Ramin A. Skibba , Anže Slosar , Michael A. Strauss , Daniel Thomas , Jeremy L. Tinker , Rita Tojeiro , Jose Alberto Vazquez , Matteo Viel , David A. Wake , Benjamin A. Weaver , David H. Weinberg , W. M. Wood-Vasey , Christophe Yèche , Idit Zehavi , Gong-Bo Zhao

The cosmic curvature $\Omega_{K,0}$, which determines the spatial geometry of the universe, is an important parameter in modern cosmology. Any deviation from $\Omega_{K,0}=0$ would have a profound impact on primordial inflation paradigm and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-14 Peng-Ju Wu , Jing-Zhao Qi , Xin Zhang

Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) allow us to determine the expansion history of the Universe, thereby shedding light on the nature of dark energy. Recent observations of BAO's in the SDSS DR9 and DR11 have provided us with statistically…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-25 Varun Sahni , Arman Shafieloo , Alexei A. Starobinsky

We study the robustness of the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) analysis to the underlying cosmological model. We focus on testing the standard BAO analysis that relies on the use of a template. These templates are constructed assuming a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-27 Jiaming Pan , Dragan Huterer , Felipe Andrade-Oliveira , Camille Avestruz